The German Friend

About The German Friend

It’s the late 1950s, and in an affluent and quietly respectable part of Buenos Aires, young Sulamit Löwenstein strikes up a friendship with her next-door neighbour Friedrich over the whereabouts of her family dog. She is the daughter of German-Jewish immigrants to Argentina, he is the son of a senior SS officer, a tragic political legacy from whose shadow both characters struggle to escape over th…

The German Friend (2012) is a romance film directed by Jeanine Meerapfel. Released in September 2012, it runs 100 minutes.

Celeste Cid takes the lead as Sulamit Löwenstein, Max Riemelt as Friedrich Burg, Benjamin Sadler as Michael Tendler, and Hartmut Becker as Herr Werner Kunheim. Written by Jeanine Meerapfel.

In the United States it streams on Film Movement Plus.